This book offers a comprehensive review of large and small airways disorders. It emphasizes CT imaging. This book is a collaborative project that has greatly benefited from the contributions of many expert authors from around the globe.
Imaging of the airways is a fascinating undertaking and, if done expertly, a true art in medicine. Over the past years, imaging of the airways has become ever more exciting and demanding, as new therapies in pulmonary medicine have become available that require careful imaging assessment of patients to aid management and monitor therapeutic success. The increasing importance of imaging in pulmonary medicine is accompanied by a surge of revolutionary developments in imaging technology that enable ever finer assessment of lung structure and function. No modality has seen more rapid innovation over the last decade than computed tomography. Current multidetector-row CT technology makes high-resolution imaging of the chest with a spatial resolution of a couple of 100 m in a matter of mere seconds. Ever more sophisticated post-processing applications enable intuitive, quantitative assessment of lung structure and function in an efficient manner, so that these technologies are increasingly embraced in mainstream medicine to improve patient care. CT of the Airways, which was so expertly assembled by my dear friends Phil Boiselle and David Lynch, is one of the very first tomes that pays tribute to our new found prowess in airway imaging.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introductory Airway Anatomy and Physiology
Kathryn Chmura, MD, Stella Hines, MD, Edward Chan, MD
2. Introductory Radiologic Anatomy of the Airways
Phillip M. Boiselle, MD, David A. Lynch, MB
3. Introductory Airway Pathology
Thomas Colby, MD, Chih-Wei Wang, MD
4. Introductory Anatomical Airway Imaging Methods
Phillip M. Boiselle, MD, David A. Lynch, MB
5. Introductory Functional Airway Imaging Methods
Jonathan G. Goldin, MB ChB, Ph.D.
6. Large Airways: Tracheal and Bronchial Stenoses
Phillip M. Boiselle, MD, Jay Catena, MD, Armin Ernst, MD, David A. Lynch, MD
7. Large Airways: Tracheal and Bronchial Neoplasms
Karen Lee, MD, Phillip M. Boiselle, MD
8. Large Airways: Tracheobronchomalacia
Ronaldo Hueb Baroni MD, PhD, Rodrigo Caruso Chate MD, Daniel Nobrega da Costa MD, Phillip M. Boiselle, MD
9. Large Airways: Bronchiectasis
John D. Newell, Jr., MD
10. Small Airways: Asthma
Phillipe A. Grenier, MD, Catherine Beigelman-Aubry, MD, Pierre-Yves Brillet, MD
11. Small Airways: Infectious Small Airways Diseases and Aspiration
Kyung S. Lee, MD
12. Small Airways: Non-Infectious Inflammatory Small Airways Diseases
David A. Lynch, MB
13. Small Airways: Obliterative Bronchiolitis
C. Isabela S. Silva, M.D. Ph.D, Nestor L. Müller, MD, Ph.D.
14. Small Airways: Smoking Related Airways Disease
David M. Hansell, MD, Athol U. Wells, MD
15. Pediatric Airways Disorders: Large Airways
Ed Y. Lee, M.D., M.P.H., Marilyn J. Siegel, MD
16. Pediatric Airways Disorders: Small Airways
Alan S. Brody, MD